People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.