I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.