Freedom can occur only through education.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Man is an imitative creature.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.