A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Everything that is exact is short.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.