Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.