There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

God has prohibited despair.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?