It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.