A person who can break wind is not dead.

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

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

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

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

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

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.