Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.