In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.