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

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

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

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!

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

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