Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.