The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.