Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.