An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

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

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.