The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.