All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.