Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.