When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.