Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?