The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

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

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

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

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.