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

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

He who blushes is already guilty.