Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.