In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains