The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

Reason is not what decides love.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.