"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."

"I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species."