Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.