He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.