Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.