The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.