“There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.”

“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

“No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.”

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

“God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.”