The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.
