The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.