Quand vous ouvrez une école, vous fermez une prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Despotism is a long crime.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.