It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.