If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.