There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.