Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
