Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.