... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.