Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.