Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

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

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

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.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.