Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

The years teach much which the days never know.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.