"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"The right of voting is the right of self-government."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of our existence."

"To be loved is to be useful, to be useful is to be loved."

"Nature has made me different from all other men. I alone know my heart, and I alone know men. He who dares to say that he is like me is a liar."