You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

The mind has no sex.

living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.