The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

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

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

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.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

I only see clearly what I remember.