Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.