The actuality of thought is life.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Hope is a waking dream.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?” 

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.” 

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”