You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Who loses a day loses life.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

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