It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Love is acting stupid together.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.