Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

I have the courage to be mistaken.