I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.