Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Columbus gave the world another world.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.