There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.