For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.