Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.