If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.