Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

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.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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