The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.