Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.