What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.