Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.