Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.