Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Law, without force, is impotent.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.