Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.