Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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.