The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.