Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.