Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.