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?

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.