Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

The general will is always right.

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