Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

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.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.