Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.