No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.