Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.