Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

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

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.