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.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

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

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.