Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.