"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."