When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.