During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.