Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Fear loves the idea of danger.