We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.