The life of truth is cold.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

What we call results are beginnings.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.