Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Sacrifice life to truth.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

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