The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

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

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.