Good men must be affectionate men.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

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?

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

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

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

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.