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.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.