“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”

“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”