Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
A good education is another name for happiness.
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc. ; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.