An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Our first and last love is self-love.