Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

A feeble body weakens the mind.