Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

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.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.