A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.