When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.