If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.