Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.