It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.