A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.