Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

The only shame is to have none.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason