A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.