Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.