Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.