One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.