The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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!

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.