Revolutions go not backward.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.