Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.