No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Injustice never rules forever.