He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.