La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.