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.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.