Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.