Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.