It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

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

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

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

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

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

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.