Nothing is achieved without solitude.

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.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

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

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.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.