When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-….

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success..

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all..

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, ….

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself..

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright..

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural j….

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is..

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justi….

Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give ….

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. G….

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transpar….

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake..

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice..

You can only govern men by serving them..