“First feelings are always the most natural”

“I shall see.”

“Whatever side I take, I know well that I shall be blamed.”

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”

“If the wind is favorable, I shall set off tomorrow...I am hazarding my life, that I may incommode your affairs..If I die, believe that you will lose a person who has never been other than entirely yours, and who by her affection has deserved that you should not forget her”

“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”