There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.