Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.