The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

False fancy brings real misery.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Freedom can occur only through education.