Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

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

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.