The truth brings no man a fortune.

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.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.