Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

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

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Power is neither male nor female.