It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.