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.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.