The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

Let us cultivate our garden.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

There are no sects in geometry.