It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

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.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

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