There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

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.