The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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