We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

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

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

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.