I only see clearly what I remember.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.