We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Law, without force, is impotent.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.