If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.