Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power