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

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.