For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.