We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

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

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.