Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

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

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Great souls are harmonious.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!