Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.