Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.