It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.