"We are born weak, we need strength; we are born helpless, we need aid; we are born foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of edu…"

"The most dangerous of all sentiments is the one which makes us say, 'It's none of my business.'"

"I know what is good, and I do it not; I know what is evil, and I follow it."

"The state of society is a state of war."

"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."