I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.