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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
We are upset at being deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends, and yet we are often content to be deceived by ourselves.
What kind of God would He be if He did not count the blinks of your eyes and is in absolute awe of their movements? What a God… What a God we have.
Always from the child’s hand, the sword should be removed. I think every nation is an infant.
There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.
A man often fancies that he guides himself, when he is actually guided by other people, and while his mind aims at one objective, his heart insensibly draws him towards another.
We easily pardon in our friends those faults which do not affect our own interests.
The hour is not past. Why will you put off your resolution? Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do. Now is the time to fight. Now is the proper time for amendment.”
The more a man has unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understands, and that without labor, because he receives the light and understanding from above.
Few people are more often in the wrong than those who cannot bear to be wrong.
In whatever way people may praise us, they never teach us anything new.
No evil man is happy.
The man with an empty purse can sing before the robber.
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not. They seem to live in good peace of mind so long as things go well with them, and according to their desires, but if their desires be frustrated, immediately they are shaken and displeased.
God is able to do more than man can understand.
Our dependance upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress to seek out human consolations.
No act is aloof. Your most secret deed is invisibly reported, its good being protected in joy, its evil destroyed in pain.
Circumstance is a severe task master to the weak, an obedient servant to the strong.
If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.
