He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Education made us what we are.