It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.