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

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.