Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.