Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.