Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.