Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.