Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.