Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.