God creates the animals, man creates himself.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.