What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.