Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

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.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.