“However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts”

“To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal”

“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think ”

“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly”

“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him”