The best path through life is the highway.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.