The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
Reason deceives us; conscience, never.
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.