L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jamás he conocido las pasiones más odiosas, nunca ha invadido mi corazón la envidia, la maldad, ni la venganza... en ocasiones la ira, pero no soy muy hábil y jamás guardo rencor.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.

A misfortune never makes me uneasy provided I know in what it consists; but it is my nature to be afraid of darkness, I tremble at the appearance of it.

The sight of the most hideous monster would, I am of opinion, alarm me but little; but if by night I were to see a figure in a white sheet I should be afraid of it.