Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.