If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.