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

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

He who blushes is already guilty.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.