Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

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

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.