I will be lord over myself.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.