The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

To philosophize means to make vivid.