Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

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

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.