Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.