What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

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

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

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.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.