Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.