Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.