The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.