For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.