translate English to French: For it seems to me that the purity of a language does not consist in carefully avoiding indecent expressions but m having none. Indeed, if we are to avoid them, they must be in our thoughts, and there is no language in which it is so difficult to speak with purity on every subject than French.
En me pénétrant de la sainteté de mes devoirs je lui rendrai les siens plus respectables; j’animerai la force du raisonnement d’images et de figures; je ne serai point long et diffus en froides maximes, mais abondant en sentiments qui débordent; ma raison sera grave et sentencieuse, mais mon coeur n’aura jamais assez dit.