Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
Work like you don’t need the money.
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry.
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.