One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.