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

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

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

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.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.