You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

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

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.