The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.