Be not the slave of your own past.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

The virtue of books is to be readable.