Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Finance is a slave's word.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.