There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

My art and profession is to live.