The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

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