We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

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.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.