We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.