It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.