Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
The history of a man is in his character.
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.