Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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.