Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.