The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.