Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.