An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

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

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.