Winter is the night of vegetation.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.