Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

God made me and broke the mold.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Money is the seed of money.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.