The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Sow but don't rush to gather the fruits

I am drunk with love and afraid of nothing.I am melting like happiness, enjoying everything.

Starting the Day— Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.