Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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.