Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Children need models rather than critics.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.