O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?