Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.