What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.