We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Too much is unwholesome.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.