How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
Ask the young. They know everything.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
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.