Every artists wants to be applauded

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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 world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?