Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.