Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Manners form the great charm of women.