True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.