Things are always at their best in their beginning.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

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

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.