Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.