In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.