I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!