By doing good we become good.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.