The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.