The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.