Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.