A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Every artists wants to be applauded

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.