You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.