There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful