I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.