If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.