Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Imagination decides everything.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.