Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.