Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.