All vigor is contagious.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

One must be an inventor to read well.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.