Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.