If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
The landscapist lives in silence.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.