When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Children need models rather than critics.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.