Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.