What is dignity without honesty?

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.