Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.