Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

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

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

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.