This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.