An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

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

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Docility is the observable half of reason.