Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

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

No labor is hopeless.