One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.