Ideas too are a life and a world.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

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.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.