When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.