And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

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

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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.