To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Every artists wants to be applauded

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.