Money is the seed of money.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

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

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.