We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.