Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

A great man is always willing to be little.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.