Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.