Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.