At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.