The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.