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.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.