If you give money, spend yourself with it.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.