The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The property of power is to protect.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.