Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

Those who fear men like laws.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.