One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.