Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.