Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.