Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

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

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.