Common sense is calculation applied to life.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.