Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.