When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Genius is intellect constructive.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.