Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

What is the use of a new-born child?

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

When man and woman die, as poets sung, / His heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.