Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.