For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Activity is contagious.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.