Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.