Books are a languid pleasure.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.