For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.