The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

Shallow men believe in luck.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.