Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.