Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs from and surpasses sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than what they are; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not.