The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.