Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

The only shame is to have none.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.