He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.