In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.