Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

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

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.