To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.