Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.