Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Trust your heart rather than your head.