Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.