Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.