The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.