It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.