Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.