The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.