Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.