Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.