Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
The best part of health is fine disposition
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.