We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'