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

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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.

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

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE