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.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.