The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

You are a success and nothing will stop your shining!

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.