The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

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

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

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