For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.