Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.