It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.