Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

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.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.