Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.