I may be no better, but at least I am different.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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?
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.