The world is full of contradiction.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.