There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

To learn is to change.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.