Without bread all is misery.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.