What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.