The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

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

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.