It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Social man lives constantly outside himself.