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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.