Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

A born king is a very rare being.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.