Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.

“Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but g…”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be de…”

“The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his tran…”