By thought I embrace the universe.
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.