It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.