The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.