It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.