He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.