No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

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

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?