In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.