Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Men, in general, are but great children.
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!