The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.