Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

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

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.