He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

God made the water but men made the wine.

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.