Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

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.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.