How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.