If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.