If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

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

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.