O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.