Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.