There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

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.