I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.