The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.