Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

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.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

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