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

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.