A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.