Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.