Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.