What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.