As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.