If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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.