Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy