Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.