The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.