The passions are the voice of the body.

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.