It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

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.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.