There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.