"To be truly good, we must be independent."

"Luxury, which nourishes a hundred poor people in our cities, starves ten thousand in the countryside."

"The most useful and least advanced of all human knowledge seems to me to be that of man."

"The bonds of society are formed by the common needs of men, and the common good of all is the end of society."

"Never did a man become a prophet in his own country, nor a physician in his own household."