Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.