A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.