Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.