“Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”
“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.”
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.”
“The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
“It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.”
“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''”
“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.”
“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
“Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.”
“As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.”
“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
“Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.”