To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.