Religion is civilization, the highest.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

Books are the curse of the human race.

Great men never require experience.