Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.