The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
The dear good people don’t know how long it takes to learn to read. I’ve been at it eighty years, and can’t say yet that I’ve reached the goal.
Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun’s rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
Every offense is avenged on earth.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.