There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.