No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

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.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.