Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.