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

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.