We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
I am the Spirit that denies.
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.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.