Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.