He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Good-humor is always a success.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?