Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.