There is a deportment, which suits the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we quit to assume that of another

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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?