The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
All history is biography.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.