It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Posterity is always just.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.