Girls must be thwarted early in life.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.