There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

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

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?