The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.