Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Women are more credulous than men.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.