Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.