My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

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

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.