To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.