A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

One must be something, in order to do something.