The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.