Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.