It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.