We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.