The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.