Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Isolation must precede true society.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one’s eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
A forte always makes a foible.
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.