Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.