Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.