It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.