Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri. - Jean de La Bruyère

What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures ? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

L'une des marques de la médiocrité de l'esprit est de toujours conter.