Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.