As nations improve, so do their gods.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.