Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?