Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.