Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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!