It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
Joseph de MaistreFalse opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph de MaistreChristianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
Joseph de Maistre