The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.