Imagination is the mightiest despot.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.