Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

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

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.