Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.