He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.