Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.