It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.