Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
You always admire what you really don't understand.