If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.