"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The female is also more given to jealousy and more envious, and more apt to bear malice."