"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."

"The busier we are the more leisure we have."

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep."

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."