I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.