I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.