Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.