Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.