The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
