A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.