Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.