Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.