Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!