Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.