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

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.