The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Money is the seed of money.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.