Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

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.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.