When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.