Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.