He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

The conscience is more wise than science.