It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

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

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.