Culture opens the sense of beauty.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.