There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
The miserable’s name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow’s bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another’s virtue.
A wedding is not house-keeping.
Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool’s gold.