Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Patriotism ruins history.

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

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.