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

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.