Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.