Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.
Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.