The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

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.

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.