Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.