Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.