If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.