Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.