Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Let us cultivate our garden.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.