In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.