Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.