The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.