We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.