Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

I love reform better than its modes.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.