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.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will