He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.