It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.