Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.