"My greatest fault has been to be too easily led, and my greatest virtue to have always recognized and avoided the errors into which I was led."

"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost."

"The child who has learned only what is taught him by others, will never be truly learned."

"The most ancient of all societies, and the only one that is natural, is the family."

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have said."