Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?