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

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

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.

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.

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

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