Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.