I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.