We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.