Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I like people who like Plato.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.