The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us..

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse..

Generosity is more charitable than wealth..

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend..

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills..

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a f….

The egoist does not tolerate egoism..

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool..

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappin….

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad..

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate..

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated..

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues..

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word..

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous..

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable..

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tea….

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment..

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears..