Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth.

Cuando un padre engendra y mantiene a sus hijos, no hace más que la tercera parte de su misión. Debe a su especie hombres; debe a la sociedad hombres sociables, y debe ciudadanos al Estado.

Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.