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

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.