It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.