It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.