There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.