The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.