It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.