History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

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.