It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

History is the zoology of the human race.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.