Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.