I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.