If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.