What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.