The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The relation of superior to inferior excludes good manners.

Equality is fundamental in every department of social organization.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.

Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.