Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.