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

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

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

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?