To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.