Quotes
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.