It is only through timidity that states are lost.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.