Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.