Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.