This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.

إنه لمنظر جميل وجليل أن ترى الإنسان يرفع نفسه من العدم بجهده الخاص ، ويبدد، بنور عقله ، تلك الظلمات التي لفته بها الطبيعة ، إنه ليرفع نفسه فوق نفسه ، وينفذ بروحه إلى أطباق السماء وينطلق كالشمس بخطوات جبارة عبر الفضاء الشاسع للكون . روسو / مقال عن الفنون والعلوم

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?

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.