Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.