I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.