No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.