“He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils:” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
“If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
“Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repenting.” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister… — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
“He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils:” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
“One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or… — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
“Before we complain of being ill we should prove that we deserve to be well.” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
