One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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.