I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.