The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

My life is a struggle.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.