The superfluous is the most necessary.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.