Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

Haste is a poor counselor

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.