Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Posterity is always just.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.