When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.