One has to do something new in order to see something new.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.