The general will is always right.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.