Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

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