Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.