Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.