Space is to place as eternity is to time.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.