We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.