Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

God: personified incomprehensibility.