“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

All socialism involves slavery.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Life is so fragile, yet we beat it to death and expect to live longer.

His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they’re colder than ever. “And that’s where you’d be disappointed, Lou.There is no good to be found in Death.