It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.