Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.