Association with women is the basis of good manners.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!