People read every thing nowadays, except books.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.