The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.