Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Often your face is your autobiography

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.