There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
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.
The breath of the mind is attention.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.