One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.