Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Love truth, and pardon error.