Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.