Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

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