The vain being is the really solitary being.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.