I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.