Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.