The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.