All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.