They do not think, therefore they are not.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.