The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.