The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.