The general will is always right.

God made me and broke the mold.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.