Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

Death pays all debts.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.