Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.