I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the ….

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education..

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings..

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itse….

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father..

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued..

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings..

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen..

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our imm….

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.].

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world..

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future..

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone..

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent..

We all covet wealth, but not its perils..

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behi….

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life..

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In t….

A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal foot….

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance..