There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.