If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

I felt before I thought

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.