Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.