A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.