Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.