“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”

“The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”