"Trust your heart rather than your head."

"The people, being subject to the laws, ought to be the author of them."

"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of our existence."

"Everything is in a state of flux on this earth. Nothing keeps a form for long, and our affections, which are attached to external things, pass and change as they do."