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.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.