"The only good political institutions are those which are capable of making a people change, and of inspiring in them a love of virtue."

"Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws; this inequality is not of man's making, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason."

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have said."

"The rich man, in his bed of down, does not know the value of the poor man's sleep."

"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."