When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

Let each of us examine his thoughts